B41J 2/3551
Block driving
Official title: {Block driving}
B41J2/3551 (Block driving) appears on 66 US grants and 32 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 66
- Published applications
- 32
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 121
- Latest grant
- 30 Dec 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 | 11 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Mitigation of inductive discharge transients in printheads30 Dec 2025US 12,508,818 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Thermal printer30 Dec 2025US 12,508,819 B2Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus configured to divide heating elements to be energized into a plurality of blocks and to energize the plurality of blocks at different timings14 Jan 2025US 12,194,761 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Region-of-interest based print quality optimization5 Sep 2023US 11,745,516 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Printing device creating print data differentiated in color development state depending on viewing direction of multi-layer medium23 May 2023US 11,654,707 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Mitigation of Inductive Discharge Transients in Printheads17 Apr 2025US 2025/0121610 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Thermal printer and control method thereof13 Mar 2025US 2025/0083456 A1Fcl Components Limited
- Printing device including heating elements heating ink ribbon selectively using first energy and second energy6 Feb 2025US 2025/0042177 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Thermal printer24 Oct 2024US 2024/0351348 A1Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus configured to divide heating elements to be energized into a plurality of blocks and to energize the plurality of blocks at different timings27 Apr 2023US 2023/0125987 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Recording apparatus, recording head and substrate therefor158US 6,290,334 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Thermal printer69US 5,809,214 ASeiko Instruments Inc. · 1998
- Addressing system for an integrated printhead56US 5,644,342 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1997
- Thermal recording head and drive circuit31US 4,141,018 ATokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. · 1979
- Thermal gradation printing apparatus31US 5,644,351 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1997